Family of Serfs

Pricipals of deception, or “Rules in a knife fight”

You are traversing a large and dark room.  Dim bulbs glow and extinguish, here and there, without illumination.  There is sound; now loud, now low, its source and direction uncertain,...
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All deception is based on truth

           A first rule of deception is truth. All deception works within the context of what is true. All deception works within the context of honesty. Deception is the deliberate...
Rovinj, Croatia

Denial – hide the truth

I add two caveats before I go on. Though I address the principals of denial and deception––deception, denial, deceit and misdirection­­––successively, linearity in deception, deception analysis and counter-deception should be,...
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Misdirection

You don't have to fool all of the people all of the time; you just have to fool the right people some of the time. (folk wisdom) On June 18...